Fortran - Re: PL/I Can create a Upper case function

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Re: PL/I Can create a Upper case function

robin

2005-09-12, 6:58 pm

David Frank wrote in message ...
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|"robin" <robin_v@bigpond.com> wrote in message
|news:HFXUe.30311$FA3.12756@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
|> David Frank wrote in message ...
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|>> However I assert that PL/I syntax cant be used to create a Upper
|>> function,
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|> PL/I has an UPPERCASE function, as well as LOWERCASE.
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|> As well, anyone can write one,
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|Well anyone aint going to write one, are they?

They wouldn't bother, because the function is:
1. convenient;
2. portable;
3. about 10 times faster than your explicit loop Fortran code; and what's more,
4. it works.

|> but why would you?
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|To prove your FAQ assertion that PL/I syntax "has more power than Fortran"
|of course.

Well, you've just proved the opposite, haven't you.

A simple function to do the job.

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